PS Iachint of the Pacific at the Patriarchal Cathedral: Christ goes before His sheep wherever life leads themtranslated

"Christ goes before His sheep wherever life takes them," said the Vicar-Bishop Iachint of the Pacific of the Diocese of Australia and New Zealand on Tuesday evening at the vigil service in honor of the Holy Hierarch Iachint of Vicina and the Pious Saint Theofana Besarab at the Patriarchal Cathedral.

His Eminence explained the meaning of the Gospel fragment about Christ, the Door of the sheep and the Good Shepherd, highlighting the Savior's care for each believer.

"But Christ knows each of us individually, by the name we received at Baptism and with which the priest calls us to the Holy Chalice. And he knows us because he takes care of us."

"This is what it means to be saved: we enter God through prayer and the Holy Mysteries and we go out to people with the love received from Him," the hierarch emphasized.

Model of shepherding and prayer The Reverend Father Iachint of the Pacific presented the life of the Holy Hierarch Iachint of Vicina, elected bishop in 1358 and became, a year later, the first metropolitan of Ungrovlachia, at the request of voivode Nicolae Alexandru Basarab.

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